This snake and jellyfish live off the coast of Australia. The sea snake is the most poisonous snake in the world. Box jellies, sometimes called sea wasps, are the most poisonous jellyfish. Their sting can kill a person in less than 3 minutes.

There are over 2,800 different types of snakes around the world. Of those types of snakes, over 375 of them happen to be venomous. One of the amazing snake facts is that some can even live to be as old as 50! It’s also another common fact that snakes, although reptiles themselves, in relation are closer to lizards than the rest of all the reptiles.

They also vary in size quite dramatically where the smallest snakes are around 2 inches in length while the largest can grow to just over 35 feet.

How about this for a quick snake fact: Snakes are completely deaf, they do not hear sounds but they do feel vibrations of sound. Weird huh? A snake smells by flicking its tongue. It’s forks allow a snake to tell which side the smell is coming from which makes it easier for it to detect prey.

All snakes are long and without legs or arms of any sort. Their skeletal composition makes them extremely flexible, almost floppy. How they are shaped is really determined by where they live. Snakes that live in or around water are typically flatter than snakes that live in forests.

Their colors range from very bright to very dull, where it’s usually the brighter colored snakes that are the venomous snakes and their bright colors are meant to be warnings to anything or anybody that may come upon them.

Snakes can be found in almost every habitat in the world with the exception of such places as Antarctica and Iceland. Other than that they are pretty much everywhere but the places that have the most snakes are tropical in nature.

Snakes will eat many different things. You might see a snake feasting on termites or rodents (mice and rats). Snakes will eat frogs and they will eat birds. One of the more astounding snake facts is that they will even eat small deer. When a snake eats, it eats the entire thing whole!!

There are over 3000 kinds of snake in the world. Giants like the seven-metre long python can squeeze the life out of a large antelope and swallow it whole. Other snakes grow no longer than a pencil. Some live in the sea, some burrow underground, others climb trees.

One species of fer-de-lance, a deadly viper, has been recorded swallowing prey that was 1.6 times its own body weight.

Poisonous or harmless, large or small, all snakes - from the desert rattlesnake to the dwarf pipe snake - have certain things in common: a long, thin shape; scaly, legless bodies; and unblinking, lidless eyes. Like all reptiles, snakes rely on the heat of the sun to control their body temperature. That's why the greatest variety of species is found in the warm, humid tropical regions of the world.

The venom of the king cobra, the world's largest poisonous snake, is strong enough to kill an elephant.

The paradise tree-snake of South-east Asia can 'fly' through the air by flattening its body into an s-shaped ribbon.

The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes.

The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin.

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.

In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 liters of air.

There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.

Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean.

Men sweat more than women. This is because women can better regulate the amount of water they lose.

The giant anaconda snake of South America, a 200-pound member of the boa family, can swallow a pig or even a deer whole at one meal. The snake coils its 28-foot-long body around the animal and squeezes tightly to stop its victim's heart.

Once the victim is dead, the snake swallows it whole. During the several hours that this takes, the snake's stomach manufactures powerful digestive juices that can break down even large bones of the victim.

The black-necked cobra, which lives mostly in Africa, spits its venom into the eyes of its victim, to cause it blindness.

There are no snakes in New Zealand.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one bite can kill twenty people or one elephant.

The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.

The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults.

The Australian Brown Snake's venom is so powerful that only 1/14,000th of on ounce is needed to kill a human being.

Taipan snakes have 50 times more toxic than a cobra snake.

Snake venom is ninety percent protein.

Snake is a delicacy in China.

Most snakes have six rows of teeth.

A snake charmer in Bangladesh once found 3,500 poisonous cobras and their eggs hidden underneath the floors of two suburban homes.

Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world.

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World's largest snail is the Australian trumpet (Syrinx aruanus), a sea species from the shores of northern and western Australia which can grow up to 77.2 cm (30 inches) in shell length, while the flesh weighs up to 18 kg (40lbs).

The longest snail is Parenteroxenos doglieli, a parasite in the body cavity of the sea cucumber.

Cymbium proboscidalis, from the shores of West Africa, grows up to 7-8 kg (15-17 pounds) and the body is so large that the shell remains like a beanie. Brought on ground, the snail's weight decreases to a quarter. Locals make from this snail a dish called tibuden, adding rice and fish. Some sea rabbits (which are sea snails lacking a shell) can be 30 cm (1 ft) long and weigh 6.5 kg (14 pounds).

2.The largest snail you could see in your garden is the Giant African Snail or Tiger Snail (Achatina achatina), which can be 30 cm (1 ft) long. Giant Apple Snail (Pomacea maculata) is the largest freshwater snail, with a shell 15 cm (0.5 ft) and weighing 600 g (1.5 pounds).

3.Garden snails have up to 14,175 teeth! They are all located on their tongue (radula).

4.The snails Littoraria irrorata on the eastern shores of US farm! They bite the stems of sea grass to weaken them, and then they fertilize the place with their feces. This way they favor the development of a fungus on which they feed.

5.French researchers discovered that the digestive secretions of the garden snail are effective against stomach ulcer. 10 mg of this powder led to a decrease by 42 % of the human stomach acidity. The product was also effective against chronic bronchitis.

6.The snail slime was found by American researchers to be an excellent scaring factor. Snail slime is also used in some beauty products...

7.Most ground snails are peaceful veggies (well, not exactly all), but the marine species can be top predators of the sea. They are armed with a harpoon like weapon (named toxoglossan radula, snails modified "tongue") injecting a deadly venom into their victims.

Enlarge pictureThis way, they can catch in a fraction of a second fish "for dinner". Some of these venoms are the most potent on the planet, like in the case of the predatory marine snail Conus magus, from coral reefs. They can grow up to 23 cm in length and eat from marine worms, small fish, mollusks (clams and other marine snails, including other cone snails.

Its poison has a greater power than morphine, but it acts in an entirely different way. Some cone snails can kill a human being with their venom.


Enlarge pictureThe snail venom impairs a particular type known as N-type calcium channels, crucial in determining some kinds of pain sensations. A pharmaceutical company has developed synthetic chemicals that also inhibit N-type calcium channels, decreasing pain. These new drugs could be employed to shut off persistent acute pain where other painkillers have not succeeded, or are not recommended, like in the case of patients with cancer or other very severe conditions.

8.In some areas, like New Guinea, the shells of sea snails were used for long as currency!

9.Some sea snail produce sulfuric acid which they use for dissolving the shells of the clams on which they feed... No need the mentions this is the most potent acid of all.

A: Diamond is Carbon
It may seem surprising that diamond is simply carbon, just like charcoal or graphite. In fact carbon has at least two other rare, and only recently discovered forms, or allotropes, known as fullerenes.

The difference is caused by the different types of bonding between adjacent atoms to form different types of crystalline structure.
In diamond, each carbon atom is bonded to four other carbon atoms in a tetrahedral structure, like a pyramid. Each link or bond is the same length, and the tetrahedral formation is therefore completely regular. It is the strength and regularity of this bonding which makes diamond very hard, non-volatile and resistant to chemical attack.

Theoretically a perfect diamond crystal could be composed of one giant molecule of carbon.
Carbon is a non-metallic element with the atomic number of 6, and an atomic Weight of 12. In combination with oxygen and hydrogen it is contained by all living objects. In the form of graphite it appears black or dark gray, opaque, and is very soft, whereas in the form of diamond is it clear, colourless, and extremely hard. In fact diamond is the hardest known naturally occurring substance. Carbon has a density of about 2.3 and diamond about 3.5.

What Makes Diamond An Ideal Gemstone?

Diamond possesses many qualities which make it an ideal gemstone.

It is extremely hard, and also very tough and hard-wearing, and this also helps it to take a very high polish. Some hard articles are brittle which detracts from their durability. There are some things which are harder than diamond.

In its pure form it is colourless, has a high refractive index, so has a very high lustre.
It possesses high dispersion, meaning that different light wavelengths are diffracted differently, giving a strong scintillating play of prismatic colours.

Diamond Discoveries:

Diamonds seem to have been known for about 3,000 years, being mentioned in Exodus chapter 28, however in early times, other hard minerals were often confused with diamond.It is thought that the earliest diamonds were found in about the 12th century B.C., in India , which remained the most important, if not the sole, source until 1725, when diamonds were discovered in Brazil.

The Indian and Brazilian deposits had been almost exhausted when in 1866, the Eureka diamond was discovered in South Africa, followed by the Star of South Africa in 1869. Shortly afterwards, the great South African diamond rush had started, and South Africa remains one of the world's most important sources of diamonds today.

Diamonds have since been discovered in many other regions of the world, including Russia and Australia.
Until the South Africa finds, diamonds were so rare and valuable, that they were only owned by the very wealthy. They were not available in high street shops!

Why Are Diamonds So Popular?

Through the publicity and promotion given to diamonds largely by the De Beers Company, and through the Diamond Promotion Service, diamonds have become the most desired gemstone.

Thanks to large scale mining, and the development of efficient cutting methods and equipment, diamonds have now become a consumer luxury affordable to the masses.
Mass production jewellery manufacturing techniques have also helped to bring diamond rings and other diamond jewellery into very affordable, even commodity, price ranges.

Man Made:

Another fact about diamond which surprises most people, is that more diamond is now manufactured than mined. Synthetically produced diamonds have been made since at least 1954, although the bulk of the synthetic production is used for industrial purposes as diamond grit. Gem quality synthetic diamonds have also been produced, although it is still more expensive to manufacture them than to mine them.

Colour:
Pure diamond, if such a thing exists, is colourless.
Most diamonds are slightly coloured, even if the colouring is almost imperceptible. The commonest colour is yellow which is caused by tiny amounts of nitrogen being present in the crystal structure, others are gray, light brown or greenish. Diamond can be almost any colour, although strongly coloured attractive specimens are very rare, and as such are not actively promoted by De Beers, probably in case consumers realise that blue, red, green and other colours are attractive, and start buying sapphires, rubies, emeralds and other gemstones instead of diamonds!
As with many gemstones, colours can be artificially produced or modified. Some fancy coloured diamonds are produced by irradiation and subsequent heat treatment. Natural fancy coloured diamonds command very high prices, especially the more more popular colours. Fancy coloured diamonds where the colour has been artificially produced are no less beautiful, but sell for more normal prices.

We occasionally have fancy coloured diamonds available in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, brown, and even black.

Clarity:
It is well known that most diamonds contain slight imperfections or flaws, indeed I firmly believe that there is no such thing as a perfect diamond. The higher the clarity grade of a diamond, the higher its desirability, and therefore its price.

Cut, Proportion, and Shape
Most jewellers will tell you that "cut" is an important factor in the price of a diamond. While this is true, most do not know clearly what they mean by the word "cut". It can have several different meanings.
Firstly, it can describe the shape and facetting pattern of the diamond, as in the modern round brilliant cut, the single or eight cut, pear shape, emerald cut, square, baguette, oval, heart, triangle, princess, marquise or fancy.

Secondly, it can mean the accuracy of the facetting, and the proportions of the stone, and lastly it can apply to the polish or surface finish of the stone.

Simulants
There have always been things which looked like diamonds, but were not diamond. I have already stated that in early times other stones were confused with diamond.

Any stone which looks like a diamond could be called a diamond simulant. Natural or synthetic white sapphire, glass, colourless quartz (rock crystal), rutile both natural and synthetic, yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG), strontium titanite, cubic zirconia, and now moissanite, all simulate diamond to a greater or lesser degree.
Do not confuse simulant with synthetic. A synthetic diamond is real diamond, but not natural diamond. A simulant can be natural or synthetic, but is not the same as the material it imitates.

The most abundant synthetic is cubic zirconia (CZ), which is a remarkably good simulant. If it is set in a high quality realistic mount, it is undetectable to the naked eye without instruments.
Moissanite is the latest synthetic simulant, and is very realistic looking, and quite difficult to differentiate from diamond.

Fascinating facts about metal cans

The steel can was first developed in the early 1800s by an Englishman, Peter Durand, to solve the problem of keeping food fresh for soldiers at the battlefront. He didn't invent the can opener at the same time, unfortunately, so you needed a hammer and chisel to get at the contents.

Aluminium cans arrived much later, in the 1960s. They have always been used mainly for drinks, with easy-open lids or pourers, and are much lighter than the steel equivalent. In fact, they're getting lighter all the time - today's cans are half the weight of the early ones.

The UK's thirsty population gets through nearly 5,000 million aluminium drink cans every year. Set tidily on the floor, they would fill a warehouse 3 miles long by 3 miles wide. And we use even more steel cans - three times more, in fact.

Recycling metal cans

Metal cans are completely recyclable. They can be melted down and used over and over again to make new cans or longer-lived products such as bikes, cars and aeroplanes.

And cans are one of the easiest types of waste material to collect and recycle. It's well worth taking the trouble, because by recycling these valuable metals we will:

save energy
save natural resources
reduce landfill
In the UK, we use an average of 240 steel food cans per person every year. So if you're anything like the average, you'll be throwing away about 20 of these cans a month, for each person in your household. Not to mention all the aluminium drinks cans.

Why recycle metal cans?

Recycling steel and aluminium cans is a relatively simple process. They are separated into the two kinds (by large electro-magnets which attract steel but not aluminium) then melted down. Once the impurities have been burned or skimmed off, the metal can be re-used to make new products. The environmental advantages are very convincing:

Recycling cans saves energy because melting them down takes much less heat than manufacturing new metal. For steel you need only about a quarter of the energy, and for aluminium only about a twentieth.

Recycling cans saves natural resources because the raw ingredients for both steel and aluminium have to be mined out of the ground, and it obviously makes sense to re-use what we already have. Mining carries a risk of environmental pollution, as well as using energy.

Recycling cans reduces landfill because although they are a fairly small proportion of household waste (about 4%), up to now most of them have ended up in local landfill sites.

At this time, the NIU 3R Program cannot accept steel or other scrap metals. If you are not sure about the type of metal your container is, please recycle it. Waste Management, Inc. will sort the metals out before processing them.

About 70% of all metal is used just once and then discarded. The remaining 30% is recycled. After 5 cycles, only one-fourth of 1% of the metal remains in circulation.

About 12.3 million tons of steel waste are generated annually in the U.S., overall, about 15.4% of steel in the waste stream is recycled.

Making tin cans from recycled steel takes only one-fourth of the energy needed to make them from new steel and created only one-fourth of the water and air pollution created by making cans from new steel.

Each year, steel recycling saves the energy equivalent to electrically power about one-fifth of the households in the United States (or about 18 million homes) for one year.

Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans every day. Every minute, more than 9,000 tin cans are recovered from the trash with magnets.

Every day, Americans use enough steel and tin cans to make a steel pipe running from Los Angeles to New York and back again.

During the last decade, world steel makers recycled almost 2.5 billion tons of steel.

Americans throw away enough steel every year to build all the new cars made in America.

The steel from the more than 39 million appliances recycled last year yielded enough steel to build about 160 stadiums the size of the new Pittsburgh Steeler Stadium. More than two appliances were recycled for every NFL fan who attended a regular season game last year.

One hundred pounds of recycled steel replace almost 150 lbs. of steel ore. When steel cans were introduced in 1935, they weighted 172 lbs. per thousand; today, they weigh 70 lbs. per thousand.

In 1989, enough scrap copper was recycled in the U.S. to supply the wiring and plumbing for every building constructed already that year.

Steel cans, including food, paint and aerosol cans, were recycled at a rate of 57.9% in 1999.
The industry re-melted more than 18 billion steel cans into new products. That's about 200 cans per every person with internet access in the U.S.

In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.

This doesn't happen on Earth, because the oxygen in our atmosphere forms an extremely thin film of oxidized metal on every exposed surface. The oxidization layer acts as a barrier that conveniently prevents chunks of metal from sticking to other chunks of metal.

In the vacuum of space, however, there is no oxidation layer. If the atoms of two metal objects come in contact with each other, what you suddenly have is one continuous metal object, and a lot of explaining to do to your mission commander.

This is an issue on the space station. Metal tools used outside the station have to be coated with plastic or other materials that will not stick.

If you consider the Universe as a whole, metal objects sticking together at the drop of a hat is the norm. It's only in special places like Earth, with our highly caustic oxygen-rich atmosphere, that we can carry around bare pieces of metal to hit each other with and not have to worry about how inconveniently sticky they are.

Hmmm, acha?
Chalo khair hai, aap bhi yaha facts post kaar saktee hai.

sweetie said:

Ashii said:

stupid topic
JB s member of the week
of the month
of the year
of alll the times

its ME offcourse
u dont need to start a topic for that

lolz
ok dats sorted den
ashi is da memba of da .................

You mean of the Millennium!!

Btw, cute sig!!

Italy.

Arzoo.

You really need to wake your hubby up to reality cos each day that goes is a day closer to the birth of your baby. Is he seriously kidding himself that he can provide for both families aswell as for the lil one on the way?

I can understand that he wants to please both but it'll put a massive strain on him & it'll only cause arguments & tears aswell as frustration between you & your families & nothing will be solved by this constant bickering.

Talk to them as much as possible & they will have to take your situation into consideration & if they don't, well that'll prove just what kind of people the really are, they should be interested in your health & well-being & not concentrating on materialistic things.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, just don't want you hurt in any-way by their stressful demands.

Yeh mazaak tha?

Damn it, I thought you were serious!

J/K!!

Afareen.

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When it comes to the topics you must stick with the rules, you must reply accordingly to the topic & give the right answers, not the wrong ones, please keep that in mind, thank you.

*Silent Roar* said:

RP agr apko game ni smj aa rhi to sirf post zyada karny k chakr main game kharab mat karen.

where are the mods

koi q nahi dekhta ab k aik mod hi games may asy ghalat [posts kar raha ha.

kisi or mem.ki ghalti ho to usy to bht note kia jata ha

He's made the mistake & he's been told about it, you should be a little more patient with him.
The matter's been dealt with, nevertheless it shouldn't happen again.

Mehak.

You're fond of travelling & you like receiving pappiyan off my baby sister!!

@ New_Beau.

Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart.

There's so many different styles in desi fashion & so much choice, the colours are amazing aswell as the materials used to make them.

Plus it's a major part of our culture, I like wearing something that represents a major part of it, seeing as it is one of the things that show's Asian women in a beautiful way.